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מגדל (migdal) — pictograph word study

מגדל

Meaning: tower, stronghold

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

מ Mem — value 40
Water, flow, womb, source; forty — the number of testing and transformation (flood, Sinai, wilderness) letter page →
ג Gimel — value 3
Movement, giving, ripening (gamal — to deal fully, to wean); the camel that carries provision across distance letter page →
ד Dalet — value 4
Door, pathway, lowliness (dal — poor, humble); the fourth direction that completes a space letter page →
ל Lamed — value 30
Learning, teaching, the shepherd's staff and ox-goad; aspiration — the tallest letter, the tower of the alphabet letter page →

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